Toilet-paper fixture



(No Model.)

s. WHEELER. TOILET PAPER FIXTURE. No. 341,I Q 9 Patented May 11, 1886.

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(Wm/8858 Ill/VE/VTOR its Satns PAnNr SETH \VI-IEELER, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

TOILET- PAPER FIXTURE.

EZEEGIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 341,709, dated May 11,1886.

Application filed Deeemberlii, 1885.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SETH XVHEELER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of Albany, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toilet-Paper Fixtures, of which the following is a specifieation,reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part thereof.

This invention has reference to improvements in the fixture by means of which an oval roll of paper may have a determinate and sufficient amount of paper cut off from it each time the fixture is operated.

It consists in the combination,with the arms of a bracket-fixture, of a swing-frame carrying a knife-bar, and having rotation on a shaft connecting it with such arms, and a former for carrying an oval roll of paper placed on said shaft and within said frame.

Itfurther consists of certain details of mechanism hereinafter described.

' In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side View of a bracket-fixture containing an oval roll of paper on its former, with the roll in position to be operated for the purpose of detaching a sheet of paper therefrom. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken in the line or m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a View of the former, upon which the oval roll of paper is placed preparatory to its insertion in the oscillating frame, retained between the two bracketed arms of the fixture by means of a shaft, as seen in Fig. 2.

a is the bracket-fixture intended to be secured to a wall or partition, as shown by the screws in Fig. .2.

I) l) are bracket-arms projecting out from said fixture.

c is a swing-frame placed between these arms I) 11, carrying a serrated knife-bar, (Z.

c is a former of flat metal of sufficient length and width to enter the interior space or opening of an oval roll of paper,f. This former c has extending across it at its top edge a tube, 9, through which is passed the shaft [1- after the former and roll of paper thereon have been placed in the frame 0, thus securing the former e, the roll f, and theframe c to the bracketed arms Z) I) in bearings i 1'.

In one of the legs of the frame 0 is placed a projection, j, which takes into one of the openings or slotsj of the former 0. This is Serial No. 186,531. (No model.)

in order to keep the frame cfrom shifting along the roll of paper as it is operated to detach a piece from the roll. The other opening or slot, j, at the top of the former is intended for the insertion of the fingers to grasp the shaft h after the paper has been used up from off the roll, for the purpose of releasing the formor e from the frame a. The socketopeniugk gives vertical space from one of the bearings i for thelifting up of the shaft h and pushing it out through the opening it in the arm of the fixture, in order to release the former e from the frame 0. This opening It and vertical socket-opening 7.: down to the bearing i on one side of a bracket-fixtu re is old and well known and need not be further described.

The knife-bar d is placed high enough on the frame a, above the shaft hand its hearings, to clear the outer surface of the roll of paper inserted underneath it. I prefer to make its edge serrated, as such has been found to better sever the paper.

The operation of this improved fixture is as follows: The former a is placed in a relief paper, f. The roll is then placed within the frame, which brings the projection 9' into one of the notches, j, of the former. The shaft h is then inserted through the opening It of the bracket I) into the openings 0' o of the framec until it drops into the beariugst t of the arms I) b of the bracket-fixture. The paper is then taken hold of atl by the hand and drawn down,which causes the roll with the frame 0 to rotate on the shaft 71. until it assumes the position as seen in dotted lines of Fig. 1. This also brings the knife-edge it into the position also seen in dotted lines in that figure, thereby causing the severance of a portion of the paper. Immediately upon this severance of the paper the roll will fall back into its original position, as the larger part of it is above the shaft lawhich also brings into its original position the knifebar d on the frame 0.

Many advantages result from this construe tion and mode of operation, some of which are simplicity ofarrangement, and ofbeing able to obtain a sufficient amount of paper for use, notwithstanding the roll is nearly used up. This is not the case when the arrangement of fixture adapted to a round roll is used, for each revolution of the round roll, when it is reduced to about onehalf itsicpiantity, practically gives sheets too short for use, thus rendering such other fixtures to a large extent practically useless. Another advantage is that this fixture and its contained roll of paper occupy less space on the wall in use.

I claim 1. The combination, with the arms of a bracket-fixture, of the shaft h, having its bearings in the said arms, a former, e, for carrying an oval roll of paper, formed atits upper edge into a tube through which the shaft h passes, and having openings or slotsj, the swingingframe 0, having knife-bar d mounted and rotating on shaft 71 and provided with projection j, substantially as and for the purpose described.

tube 7, and detachably supported in bearings 25 in the ends of the bracket-arms, substantially as described.

SETH \VHEELER.

\Vitnesses:

E. J. WHEELER, J. J. JANSEN. 

